When tennis became a battlefield for human rights — Sweden vs. apartheid, no umpire could call this.
Documentary film about the protests against the 1968 Davis Cup tennis match between Sweden and Rhodesia, in Båstad, Sweden. In a series of interviews, demonstrators and members of the Swedish government give their views on sport, politics and civil disobedience.
Direction
Eleven directors somehow make one coherent, furious voice.
Editing
Cuts between suits and streets that expose institutional cowardice.
Director
Lennart Malmer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
May '68 energy bled into everything — this is what it looked like when Swedes realized their 'neutral' country hosted apartheid.
Roy Andersson, future director of 'A Pigeon Sat on a Branch,' cut his teeth here — his deadpan fatalism already visible in the bureaucratic interviews.
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